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...Sheldon Hackney's credentials are impeccably liberal. He is the husband of a Friend of Hillary, departing president of an Ivy League university, a white Southerner accredited in the civil rights movement, a defender of Robert Mapplethorpe against Jesse Helms. In April, Hackney seemed the natural choice to be President Clinton's nominee to head the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the agency that dispenses federal grants to academia (about $160 million in 2,200 grants last year). But in this post-Lani Guinier period, the past makes Hackney ideologically suspect. Once he may have been in the catbird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appointments: The Next Lani Guinier? | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...demonology of conservative politics, Hackney has become a personification of political correctness, that most nettlesome of campus issues. As president of the University of Pennsylvania since 1981, Hackney has handled a series of incidents that critics say reflect on his judgment and temperament. Conservative standard-bearer Patrick Buchanan puts it bluntly: "He is a politically correct leftist like Lani Guinier -- a virtuecrat, out of touch with Middle America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appointments: The Next Lani Guinier? | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...important University values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict. That was University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney's lament this April when a group of Penn students, citing an offensive editorial in The Daily Pennsylvanian, stole and trashed 14,000 copies of the college newspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A True Diversity of Ideas | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...Hackney's statement, it seemed, crystallized the difficulties many national universities--including Harvard--are having as they struggle with newfound heterogeneity and its backlash. But there is a fundamental flaw in Hackney's reasoning, whose implications have colored difficulties on our own campus this year. It is a twofold error: a dangerous and incomplete definition of "diversity," and a failure to recognize that at a university, open expression is, and must be, paramount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A True Diversity of Ideas | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...Hackney allowed Robin Read, a Penn administrator at the school's Judicial Inquiry Office, to perpetuate a near witch-hunt--despite the fact that Penn professors and others in the community rushed to Jacobowitz's defense. Read determined herself that Jacobowitz's remark was a racial slur because water buffalo are black animals native to Africa; in fact, they are endemic to South Asia. Regardless, the last time we checked, the rule was "innocent until proven guilty." Then again, this isn't about the Constitution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Community' Values: Put Free Speech First | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

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